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Slow & Steady Records announces the release of Brass Magic's third album, Fanfare, which finds the Oakland-based “horns and drums” band building on its foundation of bringing non-traditional grooves, textures and influences into the brass band tradition. More so than previous albums, Fanfare finds Brass Magic in an exploratory phase. “On previous recordings, we primarily wrote 'danceable' music,” says drummer Adam Starkopf. “For this recording, we wanted to fuse our roots in creative American music with our brass band instrumentation.”

Ovation, America's only arts network, has announced the premiere date for the third and final season of X Company. Inspired by the true story of Camp X, a top-secret Allied spy training facility in Lake Ontario, the series stars Evelyne Brochu (Orphan Black), Jack Laskey (Endeavour), Hugh Dillon (Flashpoint, Continuum), Warren Brown (Luther, Strike Back), Connor Price (Being Human), Torben Liebrecht (Homeland) and Lara Jean Chorostecki (Designated Survivor, Hannibal). Season Three of X Company will debut on Monday, August 20th at 10pm ET / 7pm PT on Ovation.

Son of Semele announces the nine exciting artists and solo works that will make up the 2018 edition of its popular Solo Creation Festival, performed at the Son of Semele Theater at 3301 Beverly Boulevard, from July 12 to July 29, 2018. This curated showcase for the diversity and creative potential of solo performance, founded in 2014, is a proven incubator for works that go on to be performed elsewhere in LA - including multiple festival alumni in the Hollywood Fringe - as well as in other U.S. cities and abroad.

Louise Jameson played the iconic role of assistant Leela in Doctor Who in the Seventies opposite Tom Baker. She later starred in Tenko, Bergerac and EastEnders. In a 40-year career, her first love, the theatre, has seen her work with the National Theatre and RSC, amongst others. Now she stars in Philip Ridley's modern classic, Vincent River, currently playing at Park Theatre.

UK rock trio Reigning Days have released their new single 'Inhaler', the latest track to be taken from their upcoming debut album Eclipse, out April 13th via Marshall Records. 'Inhaler' is an explosion of anthemic rock, opening with a piercing guitar hook before a thunderous bassline drives the tune into its stadium-sized chorus.

Following a string of acclaimed singles and live shows, and having firmly established themselves as one of the most exciting bands to emerge on the UK rock scene over the past two years, Devonshire rock-trio Reigning Days are set to release their eagerly anticipated debut Eclipse on 13th April

60 MINUTES made the Top 10 again, for the second straight week and fifth time in seven weeks. The CBS newsmagazine drew 11.3 million viewers to finish at #8, according Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, Nov. 12. 60 MINUTES was the Sunday's #1 non-sports prime program in viewers.

ENDANGERED! is baaaaack, and it's alive!! What's scarier than Halloween? Being locked in the zoo alone during a Super Storm, with endangered animals from around the world! Pandas & Cheetahs & Croc's, oh my!

ENDANGERED! is baaaaack, and it's alive!! What's scarier than Halloween? Being locked in the zoo alone during a Super Storm, with endangered animals from around the world! Pandas & Cheetahs & Croc's, oh my!

The hit family musical ENDANGERED! will once again extend its life at the Davenport Theatre (354 West 45th Street), now with two performances each Saturday at 11am and 3pm, beginning Saturday, October 28, 2017.

In his earliest memory, my grandfather is four years old. The year is 1919 and he stands on his tenement building in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where he watches an army parade. Soldiers are returning from the Great War, and eternal peace on Earth seems possible.

The hit family musical ENDANGERED! will extend its run at the Davenport Theatre (354 West 45 Street), now through October 8, 2017.  

This summer, FineHeart Productions, and The Eco Musical LLC will present ENDANGERED! The Musical, by Keni Fine and Tony Small, directed and choreographed by Michael Chase Gosselin, beginning performances on July 10 and opening Sunday, July 23 at The Davenport Theatre (354 West 45 Street).

Hallmark Channel flies the 'W' when America's most athletic and lovable kittens meet in Hallmark Channel Stadium to grind it out in the rock 'em, sock 'em annual gridiron event, KITTEN BOWL IV, Sunday, February 5, 2017

Comedic icon Carol Burnett is set to return to television in a new pilot picked up by ABC from executive producer Amy Poehler.

Hallmark Channel flies the 'W' when America's most athletic and lovable kittens meet in Hallmark Channel Stadium to grind it out in the rock 'em, sock 'em annual gridiron event, KITTEN BOWL IV, Sunday, February 5, 2017

This play took me 28 years. 1988 marked the 70th anniversary of the end of the First World War. To commemorate it, an 'Armistice Festival' was held in London, which, like the Edinburgh Festival, included a fringe open to anyone. I am ashamed to admit that I was a rather precocious 18 year old, and called the director of the festival, Tim McHenry, to suggest to him my idea of a one-man play about war poet Wilfred Owen.